The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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